pry Význam & definícia

Význam pry v slovenčine

• 0 to try to find out private facts about a person:

  • As a reporter, I was paid to pry into other people's lives.

  • I hope you don't think I'm prying, but has your boyfriend ever lived with anyone before?

  • She wanted a private holiday away from prying eyes (= where no one would be trying to see her).

• 1 to move or lift something by pressing a tool against a fixed point:

  • [ + adj ] The car trunk had been pried open and all her equipment was gone.

• 2 to open, move, or lift something by putting one end of a tool under it and pushing down on the other end:

  • She pried the oyster open.

  • They pried the information out of him.

• 3 to try to obtain private facts about a person:

  • Reporters were prying into her personal life.